[目的/意义] 经典阅读处于学生通识教育的核心环节，大学经典推荐书目在"读什么""怎么读"的核心教育环节发挥着重要作用。分析和确立大学经典推荐书目的遴选标准，探究其发展特点，对于优化经典书目编制、推动经典阅读，具有十分重要的意义。[方法/过程] 通过网络调研和电话访谈梳理部分"双一流"高校的官方经典推荐书目，分析我国高校经典推荐书目的产生过程与背景。[结果/结论] 大学经典推荐书目在遴选上重视中国传统经典，也注重借鉴西方经典；人文社会科学经典与自然科学经典遴选相对均衡；发掘元典书目新生，重视充实有价值的影响书目。同时，在阅读推广实践中，呈现出尊重阅读主体、重视首因效应发挥、丰富创新推介载体，以及差异化、层次化、定制化的发展特点，体现出高校党政领导的重视和图书馆的主动作为。

[Purpose/significance] As classics reading is at the core of general education, recommendatory bibliographies for college students classics reading play an important role in the core educational links concerning "what to read" and "how to read". To analyze and establish the selection criteria of university classic recommendation、explore its development characteristics are significant to optimize the compilation of classics and promote the reading of classics. [Method/process] An analysis is done concerning the selection criteria and developmental characteristics of classics reading recommendatory bibliography in China on the basis of studies on certain mature bibliographies from Double top universities through network research and telephone interviews. [Result/conclusion] In selection of classics, they attach importance to traditional Chinese classics while objectively draw on western classics; they show a balanced development between humanities and social sciences classics and natural science classics; they feature the revival of original classics and the enrichment of books with valuable influence. They display the development characteristics of respecting the subjects of reading, paying attention to the primacy-effect, enriching the innovating recommendation carriers, and differentiation, layering and customization, all of which reflect the attention by the CPC and administration leadership in colleges and universities and the initiative of the libraries.